I had always been under the impression that fancy synths like Serum were kind of unnecessary and that at the end of the day, it's your personal understanding of synthesis that matters much more than your particular instrument.
I started learning synthesis on Logic's ES2 and got familiar with the basics (oscillators, filters, LFOs, and envelopes), but I always really struggled to make sounds I liked. Now I have been fiddling with Tal's emulator of the Juno 60 (Tal UNO LX) and the Dexed DX7 emulator, and I fucking love them. I feel so much more inspired to play working with these tools!
Is there something fundamentally different about how these synths make their sound, or am I just too uneducated to be able to create similar sounds with the ES2?
Or, to the point- if you want to create great new sounds, should you focus your efforts on finding new synths that you like, or on learning to master the synths you already have?
Submitted May 24, 2017 at 10:32PM by mynameisatree https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6d6kb4/how_much_does_your_synth_really_matter/?utm_source=ifttt